“These buildings, some nearly a millennium old, are charged with the grandeur of God, as though the architects, suddenly doubting that it could be read in nature, decided to codify it in stone.”
Twenty reasons why people should emigrate to Kansas, from a nineteenth-century newspaper. It will make you want to throw a hedge apple at the head of someone you love (don’t try this at home!).
An account of how the Old Gentlemen’s Reading Experiment was birthed in an English village bookshop.




